The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-06-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.
John Leniest OF Minneapolis, was killed

John Leniest, OF Minneapolis, was killed
at Breckenridge.
Winona Special One Geehring OF Allan.
ia, Ca, is under arrest on suspicion Of
having stolen 5000 from his roommate at
the Milwaukee house u few weeks ago. In
his trunk were found several suits oil
clothes, though. to be DISCUSSES, also hair,
false whiskers, dark lantern, etc. /.
Fourty-four car loads OF sugar and syr-
up arrived in st. Paul, over the Manitoba
coming from San Francisco via the Cana.
dian Pacific. The shipment consists Of
1000 barrels and / 500 sacks OF sugar,
and 295 barrels OF syrup.
Mr.. Franklin Cook, an early resident o.
Minneapolis, died recently at his home.
He has been a navy contractor and bridge
builder and under Gen. Warren had
charge OF the improvements OF the Missis.
sippi river between the two cities, and
personally superintendent the construction
OF the apron OF the Falls OF st. Anthony.
Application was made to Gov. McGill by
the governor of Nebraska for a requisition
for j. j. Hartigan OF Tracey. this state.
The grounds for the request are that Har-
tigan has been guilty OF conspiracy grow
ing out OF the organization and subsequent
transactions OF a bank at Tracey. The
requisition was denied on the ground that
Hartigan had never been in Nebraska.
Gov. McGill has received information
from Norman j. Colman, commissioner oil
agriculture, that pleuro-pneumonia exists
in the following counties in the various
states named: New Westchester,
York; Maryland-Howard, Baltimore,
Carroll, and Prince George; Illinois-Cook
county. The circular conveying the an.
nOuncement ia dated Nav "a
The Minnesota Historical society is the
fortunate recipient OF splendidly painted
oil portraits OF two OF the best known
pioneers OF the state-Norman w. Kittson
and Henry H. Sibley. They are the gift OF
Jane j Hill, who had them ex EXPRESSLY execut-
ed by Mr.. Blight, one OF the most talented
portrait painters who ever visited this
locality.
Mr.. Cakes, for the Northern Pacific.
maintains that the state railroad COM
missioners have no Jurisdiction in q mat.
ter OF tariff OH ties.
j. NJ. Mayfeld, in Minneapolis shoots
and perhaps fatally wounds c. c. Winslow.
sewing machine agent.
The June term of the United States dis.
trict court is adjourned by Judge Nelson
at Winona, because no funds are available.
At Herman John T. Linfest cook for the
Western Union telegraph gang on the Aber,
deem extension OF the ST. Paul, Minneapolis
e Manitoba railroad, was found dead. A
post mortem found that death was caused
by fall, causing concussion OF the brain.
The deceased was Il member OF st. John g
r. post No. u. Minneapolis.
At Anoka, q son OF j. w. Hill, aged IL
years, was drowned in the Rum river while
bathing. Mr.. Hill lost two daughters
with the past five weeks from measles,
and within the past three years has lost
his wife and children, three small children
only remaining out OF family OF eight.
At the special election at Browns Valley
to vote on the question OF issuing bonds
to aid in building the canal between TRAY.
erse and Big Stone lakes. the proposition
was carried with but one dissenting vote.
The bonds voted are $50, 900.
!, T. F. jacobson, twenty-one years old, in
the employ of the North Minneapolis plan
ing mill, while in bathing among the logs
in the pond between the falls and Union
depot was drowned.
Some of the carpenters OF st. Paul are
on a strike for nine hours day.
Robert E. Gleason, foreman OF the Turn
bull saw mill at Oak Park, near Saltwater
was instantly killed. He slipped and fell
and was caught between belt and O bull.
ley and carried around the latter until
crushed to death. His body was very
badly mangled. The deceased was forty,
five years OF age. q native OF New York.
John Crett, young Pole, was brough,
down from Albany, on the Manitoba road
in St. Cloud, and lodged in Jail accused o.
outraging Anna, the fourteen-year- old
daughter OF Joseph Zimmerman. who lives
near there. He narrowly escaped lyhching
The railroad commissioners have return
ed from an extended trip in the northern
part Of the state. They report stronl
sentiment in opposition OF the long and
short haul clause in either the state or in
terstate laws at all points where the mat
ter was considered.
The divorce suit commenced In the dis
trict court at Minneapolis by Emma As
trope against Thomas Astrope is some
thing of O novelty in divorce litigation
The plaintiff is about sixty years old. and
the defendant eighty. They were married
in Oshko sh in 1917 and lived together un
til 1878. when, as the plaintiff alleges, by
reason OF his cruel treatment toward hel
she was compelled to leave him to save hel
life.
The G.. A. r. encampment at Albert
Lee was fine affair and largely attended
Kaufman& Pearlman, pawnbrokers ant
elothiers OF Mankato, were closed up I'm
der an attach ment suit instituted BY
Strauss & Co. OF Chicago, and an assign
ment was made to w. g. Hoerr.
Christopher Craft, well-to-do Swede O
Prior, was drowned in Big Stone lax
while fishing from leaky boat, which
sank with him.
Lannie Nc Afee, the well known billiard
- III I'll
third-ssory window in u delerium and sus
tanned fatal injuries.
In the district court at Mankato the cas-
OF John @. Porter against H. E. Salesbur
aid Cornelius Wampler, returned yer
dict for defendants. The action was fo
SIS, 900 damages for personal injuries sus
tanned while at work en- the New Uln
school house in 1884, through scaffoldin
giving away. The defendants were the con
tractors.
A solitary" building for insane and un
ruly convicts is to be erected at Stillw alter
The final arrangements for the Catholi
Total Abstinence convention at st. Pau
have been completed. The clergy OF tn
diocese, officers and ex- officers of the Cru
saders Union and presidents Of various so
cieties will be invited to be present at tn
mass meeting to be held on the evening O
June 15. Large delegations from variou
neighboring cities are expected to be pres
emit.
The secretary OF the treasury has author
lied the employment of six nurses to at
tend the sick in the barracks hospital, Ke,
West, Fla, and four guards to protect tn
property Of persons removed to the hos
pital.
At Philadelphia, Robert g. Hall, age,
thirty -four years, shot and killed Mrs. Lii
liam Rivers, aged thirty years, on Nortl
Tenth street, where the couple were Twin
as man and wife under the name OF Bur
ton. Mrs. Rivers was the wife OF Jane
w. Rivers, an actor known to the profess
ion as James Reynolds. A policeman OF
going to the room found Mrs. Rivers dead
with two bullet holes in her head and he
throat cut. Hail WIS lying on the foo
Unconscious, he having cut his throat wit
a razor. In the room was also found
marriage contract signed Robert q. Bun
ton and Lillian E. Rivers, in which the,
pledge themselves in marriage 1.-THE sam
as though such had been consummated b.
ceremony" When Hall found that hi
efforts to take his life were unnvailing b
tore the flesh from the wound with hi
hands.
The Honolulu Gazette attacks Kin
X ain o,.o FIR o11oUod IrsEor~y 4, A. <,,s.,.